Designers! There are only 2 weeks left to enter your submissions for the 2018 @westernliving DOTY awards. I'm still so honoured to have received the 2017 Robert Ledingham Memorial Award. The recognition has strengthened my business, and inspired me to keep forging ahead. #wldoty2017#designaward#careergoals

I’m a little late for #mgpmondays but I seriously was stuck just trying to figure out what to photograph today... and I decided on the front of my business card 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t have a proper logo yet, but I’ve already decided on the monstera palm leaf, and luckily @vistaprint has that image available for use, so it’s a start. 😉 Story time on why I chose the monstera leaf:
The monstera palm leaf was the greenery my florist used for my bridal bouquet when I got married. I could probably stop there and you would be satisfied, except I only had two mess ups with my wedding vendors on my wedding day: my hair and my bouquet. Don’t get me wrong, both were gorgeous, but my hair stylist was allotted 2 hours on my hair and she took 3, which caused me to be late and then my style didn’t hold. (Thankfully I brought my curling iron and could quick fix it.) My flowers were supposed to be cascading but we’re a nosegay style when they arrived and I had asked for different greenery.
I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get the style I wanted, but I fell in love with those leaves. I didn’t even know they were a choice, and their tropical feel didn’t exactly go with my wedding, or the calla lilies, kermit mums and delphiniums in the bouquet...but yet somehow it did. They were absolutely beautiful and when I started trying to figure out a logo I kept going back and forth between calla lilies, hibiscus flowers, and monstera leaves. I started thinking about how I sort of just stumbled into photography just because I wanted a decent camera for my honeymoon, and I thought of how I fell in love with those leaves the way I fell in love with photography: by sheer accident.
Things don’t always go according to plan, but with a little flexibility, optimism, and grace, we can see the opportunities in life through our mistakes, accidents, and the lemons life hands us. 🍋😉